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Archive for the ‘Futurist Topics’ Category. Did we design this future? September 2nd, 2016. I have held this discussion before, but a recent video from FastCompany. Reinvigorates a provocative aspect concerning our design future, and begs the question: Is it a future we’ve designed? A few weeks ago, I posted an image of Mark Zuckerberg’s laptop with tape over the camera and microphone. Maybe he’s more concerned with privacy since his world is full of proprietary information. But, as w...August 19th, 2016.
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When the stakes are low, mistakes are beneficial. In more weighty pursuits, not so much. June 10th, 2016. I’m from the old school. I suppose, that sentence alone makes me seem like a codger. Let’s call it the eighties. Part of the art of problem solving was to work toward a solution and get it as tight as we possibly could before we committed to implementation. It was called the. In a recent FastCo article. The story goes on to say that Facebook, though it is pouring tons of money into AI, is behind the ...
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Preparing for the robot takeover.
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The robo-apocalypse. Part 1. July 24th, 2015. Posted in Design topics. Talk of robot takeovers is all the rage right now. I’m good with this because the evidence is out there that robots will continue to get smarter and smarter but the human condition, being what it is, we will continue to do stupid s* t. Here are some examples from the news this week. Or in the words of songwriter Donald Fagen,. A just machine to make big decisions. Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision…. If someone came to u...
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The killer feature for every app.
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The killer feature for every app. August 14th, 2015. I have often asked the question: If we could visit the future “in-person” how would it affect us upon our return? How vigorously would we engage our redefined present? Part of the idea behind design fiction, for me, is making the future seem real enough to us that we want to discuss it and ask ourselves is this the future we want. If not, what can we do about it, how might it be changed, refined, or avoided altogether? A scary new novel is out called.
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Archive for August 14th, 2015. The killer feature for every app. August 14th, 2015. I have often asked the question: If we could visit the future “in-person” how would it affect us upon our return? How vigorously would we engage our redefined present? Part of the idea behind design fiction, for me, is making the future seem real enough to us that we want to discuss it and ask ourselves is this the future we want. If not, what can we do about it, how might it be changed, refined, or avoided altogether?
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Tampering with the primal forces of nature.
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Meddling with the primal forces of nature. August 7th, 2015. Posted in Design topics. One of the more ominous articles of recent weeks came from WIRED magazine in an article about the proliferation of DNA editing. The story is rich with technical talk and it gets bogged down in places but essentially it is about a group of scientists who are concerned about the Pandora’s Box they may have created with something called Crispr-Cas9, or. And so, we play catch-up. From the WIRED article:. The rules exist tha...
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What games will we change next? Is your game one of them?
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What games will we change next? Is your game one of them? July 10th, 2015. Posted in Design topics. A few of weeks ago I was blogging about open sourcing, collaboration and how all these tectonic shifts change industries, professions and more. Then, there was a recent blog on the future of work and how even white collar jobs, the ones that everyone thought were bullet-proof, are targets for dissolution by artificial intelligence (AI). Could designers be targets as well? About the very interesting trend i...
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Let's evolve out of those pesky human things. As long as we're happy.
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There’s an app for that. June 26th, 2015. Posted in Design Fiction. As the Internet of Things ( IoT. And Ubiquitous Computing ( UbiComp. Points out how many of these innovations are replacing just the slightest amount of extra brain power, ever-so-minimal physical activity, or prescient concentration. Not to mention that these apps just supply another entry into your personal, digital footprint. More in the week’s news (this stuff is happening everywhere) this time in FastCompany. Of course it is. No...
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On better humans and bad bots.
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On better humans and bad bots. July 3rd, 2015. Posted in Design topics. News of breaking future technologies, the stuff at the crux of my research, accumulates as a daily occurrence, and this week is no different. Of note, Zoltan Istvan is (another) 2016 US presidential candidate, but this time for the Transhumanism party. Transhumanism. I’ll reserve comment on this. According to WIRED’s James Temperton,. Human: I really like our discussion on morality and ethics …. Human: What do you like to talk about?
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Robots will be able to do almost anything, including what you do.
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Robots will be able to do almost anything, including what you do. May 22nd, 2015. Posted in Design Fiction. There seems to be a lot of talk these days about what our working future may look like. A few weeks ago I wrote about some of Faith Popcorn’s predictions. Quoting from the Popcorn slide deck,. Now, I consider Popcorn to be a marketing. Futurist, she’s in the business to help brands. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I agree with almost. Forwarded to me by a colleague). At SXSW in 2006. It is,.
